8 days

Christmas Updates: With the help of my SIL we figured out what to give the in-laws. Some secret operations will be involved to accomplish the goal, but I think and hope we can do it. I can't spoil it just in case they see this post! Sneaky Sneaky! It's actually something they need. We all know its impossible to think of gifts for the parents.

I narrowed it down to 2 dollhouses for my neice, Lily that I will purchase next month. Both are girly and has the moms approval :-) I like how they already come with the furniture and can easily be tucked away.

So as I was hunting for a dollhouse. I came along gift #4 idea for Aiden! Now I just have to decide....Wood Guitar or Treehouse. UGH the decisions!! What do you think? Both will teach him to be creative by playing music or playing with the animals using his imagination. So hard because they are so cute. Once I decide that the planning is done. I have my 4 gifts. :-)

Other news: 8 more days till I start my new job!!!!!! See the excitement? I can already tell I love my Lead Team Manager. Uber sweet and easy to talk to just like my direct Manager. More pay, less stress, great coworkers...who wouldn't love that.

Also, NO more 2-4am phone calls. OMG can't wait for that day!!!! However, it is getting sad to be leaving my current group, they keep saying "Are you suuuure you want to leave" "See now what are we going to do without you". They are awesome.

I just got notice about my move with my new cube #. I'm switching buildings too! YAH no more working in the ghetto! Leaving Hickory Hood! So I ask my dear friend Erica to do a drive-by to scope it out. Hey, who knows how long I will be in this cube, so I DEFINITELY want it to be better than the reject cube I'm in now. No more people directly behind me hearing every word I'm saying or even worse seeing my screen perfectly. And the best part is....I have enough space to put up picture frames instead of having to post them on the cube wall. Weird to be excited about that but kinda important when most my time is spent in a 4x4 space. I just hope the neighbors I do have are the loud ones or I will be moving locations. I can't stand when people shout on the phone instead of talking normal, complete disregard of others. Well off my soapbox. :-)

Aiden news: He is truly a ladies man. I swear EVERY little girl at daycare loves him. Small and little. Sometimes I have to sit and think "What does he do to make them love him so much?!?! He can't talk yet." Then I think it must be like the movie, "Look who's talking to". Baby talk that we don't know about. They come running up to him when we drop him off or say hey/bye to him. Some even make a point when I come pick him up to run up to him and give him a big hug. How precious is that! He now turns around as we walk out and gives them waves. Could eat him up!

I couldn't ask for a better son. A son that LOOOVES bananas! When I make my protein shake in the AM he see me put in a banana, he runs up to me hands in the air and grunts. I'm desparately trying to get him to tell me he wants some by constantly repeating "You want SOME?" "What do you want, BANANA?" "You want MORE?" It's not clicking yet but I know with time he will be able to do it. He is talking alot more, and potentially saying more words than I know but my baby talk decoding is not 100 percent yet. lol I hear boys take longer than girls...so I will just stick with that and keep practicing.

On a high note, I know he understands us now because we can tell him to do something and he will do it. Here are a few examples:
*Shut the fridge door. (Or any door for that matter)
*Pick up the ball (and proceeds to throw it to Murph)
*Pick up the ___ letter. (replace blank with color. He does get green and blue mixed up though)
*Where's Murphy? (He will go search for him and try to pet him)
*No! Put it down! (As he grabs the remote. He's got the increase volume and input button down pat)
*Get down! (As he is trying to stand in his chair or on the couch)

Me update: Aug 1 both myself and Wes started P90x. Both the diet and workout plans. After 3 days I can say we are doing great. The meals are yummy but I'm having trouble eating all that I'm suppose to and always end up with leftovers. The other trouble is meal preparing! OMG! Last night I had to cook dinner (thankfully Wes did all the prep work), get our lunches ready for today, and do some prep work for this mornings breakfast. That's the only part that sucks about it. But I can honestly say I'm not starving and feel constantly full. I know I'm at only day 3 but I can say I'm not burned out from the workouts either and I'm obviously not a workout nut yet. Hopefully, this will jumpstart that. Gotta do it for the little man and I want to be in better shape before we think about having baby #2 and that takes time my dear.

I was a little curious how I was doing since I knew my food intake was more than it ever was before so I decided to weigh this morning...to give a little result preview....after 2 days I've lost 3 pounds! With the weight I've lost the previous 2 weeks on just changing up my diet (aka. lots of salads, fish,) but with no hardcore workouts thats a grand total of 8 pounds!!!!!!!!! Getting closer to my goal. But for the future I'm only giving weekly updates that's all we are recording. Also, if anyone wants the videos or meal plans I've got them all, so no need wasting the money :-) We got our copies from a mutual friend.